'Critical Role' Kickstarter for animated Dungeons & Dragons special ends with $11 million in funding

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'Critical Role' Kickstarter for animated Dungeons & Dragons special ends with $11 million in funding
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By the close of the campaign Thursday, 'Critical Role' fans had raised more than $11.3 million to fund a 'Dungeons and Dragons' animated series. The project has become the most successful film or television campaign in Kickstarter history.

div > div.group > p:first-child"> In March, the folks behind the"Dungeons and Dragons" webseries launched a Kickstarter campaign to create an animated special based on its first campaign. Within an hour of its launch, it raised more than $1 million in funding.

"We are eternally humbled," Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer told CNBC last month, when the Kickstarter campaign was about halfway completed. In addition to the digital series,"Critical Role" has also begun working on campaign-exclusive merchandise, rewards for those that backed the project. The show features Mercer as the dungeon master, the organizer of the game who sets quests for players to complete and describes what the players hear and see on their journeys.

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